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Topic: BBC: Guantanamo Saudi 'kills himself'
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bigcitygal
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posted 31 May 2007 03:10 AM
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A Saudi Arabian prisoner has died in an apparent suicide at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US military has said.A statement by the US Southern Command said the inmate was found unresponsive and not breathing by guards, and attempts to revive him failed. Two Saudis and a Yemeni prisoner were found hanged in an apparent suicide at the camp in June last year. There are about 380 prisoners at the camp, some held for five years.
Link to the very short BBC story here Commentary on this report:
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first off, what’s up with the scare quotes around “kills himself”–i ask because the u.s. government has been particularly vehement about repositioning “suicide” as “terrorist actions” (as in, committing suicide is not a sign of depression and as such, an indicator of the horrible evilness that is guantanamo, but rather a continuation of the terrorist mentality that got the person imprisoned to begin with) and i’m wondering if ‘kills himself” will eventually be reworked to reflect the u.s. government strategy.second–why does this particular peice of ‘breaking news’ seem like it’s going to die off really quickly? it’s not even front page news at bbc–OR front page news in the “americas” section. and lastly–i realize that headlines are hard to come by some times–but there is just something patently wrong to me with the man in question being called a “guantanamo saudi”. as if his nationality has been overwritten to such an extent he’s no longer a saudi, he’s a *guantanamo* saudi. he’s a forced citizen of a new nation/state.
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